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For "The Korecaat" complete aee Page Column 7. NEW-YORKj WEDNESDAY, MAY 15. 1803. Tkt Timet iota not ndtrtal to return rtjectM mnuumripti. In aU ccrra arArre a rrfam of WMmmoeript i detirtd pottag mt be, inclotd, I ksPIRAKTS.

SILENT i Mr. T. B. Reed In the city, and some friends who admire his many good qual ities and have hopes for his political future wlshj he wpuld take occasion to say something decided and decisive In re-! gard to silver. Ex-President Harrison i arrives in town to-day on his way -to Newark, nJ where he is to be presented with' a gold medal by the State Historical Society commemorative of the fact that the Washington Centennial fell upon the first year of Mr.

Harrison's Presidency. He preserver an undignified silence on silver question and de-: Clares that his visit to the East has no political significance. Mr. William. Mc-Klnley.

after venturing some solemn double-faced platitudes In his recent Jour-5 ney to the South and East, has retired Ohio and Intrenched himself in lmpene-l trable reserve confident that It Is not yet; timer i to conunue nis advance to-; ward the silver camp or to about face and join the sound-money forces. The conduct of these gentlemen Is not cred-: Itable. There Is only one motive for.lt selfish cowardice. Nor, contrary to what they seem to Imagine, is it really Neither a nomination nor an election is more likely1 to come their way on ac-f count of it. The political stomach of the American people does not crave what is neither hot kior cold, but rejects it.

The sllver question is a ery definite and urgent one and admits of no trimming or equivocation. This country has a gold standard. It is pledged to keep al) forms of its currency equal to gold. A powerful body of voters, led for 'the most part by interested silver mine owners, and in less part byjlgnorant and fanatical theorists, not only refuse to lessen the strain imposed by this obligation, but; are trying to make! it utterly, intolerable. I xnny uemana me; unumitea ana independent coinage of silver at 10 to 1.

They are using their utmost energies to secure the adoption of this policy by one or both of the great parties. They have some strength in each party, and they threaten to desert; whichever one shall refuse their demand and promise to support whichever shall comply with It, The three distinguished and timid gentlemen whom we hav mentioned are afraid that if they declare now against that wfeked and! ruinous policy and against any approach to or any compromise with lta advocates-: they may; fall in the object of thlr ambition. If they persist in their hesKancy and cowardice they may be perfectly assured that they will thus for the simple reason that the voters who! will not tolerate any policy of this who understand Its disastrous consequences and its ignoble pur pose, are a vast majority of the Aniericanf people. I Promotion." says the Psalmist. Cometh 'neither if rom the East nor from the West nor from the pouth." It must come from the whole land, whenever its people are awakened, as our people unquestionably are, tol the real meaning of such a vital National issue as the sliver men have forced upon them.

These doubting aspirants for the people's favor and conn-dence ought, to have learned before now that the time is long passed when a man could be chfsen President of the United States for what hedoes not believe, for his want of conviction or want of courage to avow hiaj conviction. They need not go so very far lntotbe past to convince themselves if this. Do they remember the situation in and 1892? Do'they recall the plain, straightforward letter that Mr. Cleveland; wrote on the silver question then, against the advice of many of his political friends and to the uttjer dismay of the politicians? Had he re mained Silent, as these gentlemen are silent, he would not now be President of the United States, because neither his party nor the majority of the voters would have had that confidence in him that was essential to his election. We do not expett Mr.

Reed or Mf. Harrison, and certainly do not expect Mr! McKin-ley, to rise to any such level of courageous sincerity Cleveland habitually maintains, but we feel warranted in calling their attention to the general feeling of grouse contempt that is spreading through the country with regard to their present attitude. TUB FEDERAL, CIVIL SERVICE COM I MI58IOK. The United 8tat Civil Service Commission is bow reconstituted, and consists of twoi Democrats gad one Republican. CoL, Rice, who takes the place of Mr.

Roosevelt, is a gentleman of excellent reputation in private and public life, and though not previously connected directly! with civil service Reform, is said to be deeply Interested tn it. Major who takes the place of Mr. Jyroan, has been many years In the Postal Service, wit Postmaster St. Louis, gad conspicuous In Mr. Harrison's TTTB NEW-YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, Administration (of his fidelity and intelli gence In administering the rules tn his office.

I Proctor, Is I rom Kentucky, and is the only remalniig member of the commission. He Is ieverjr way an admira ble official in Intellectual and moral qual ities. la flrftijbut not narrow, cau tious without ank tendency to compro mise, a skillful' idmlnlstrator, and one who wins at once the confidence and the sympathy of all lonest men with whom he has to deal. He' has been an earnest advocate of the Rigorous application and steady extension of the merit system. The commission: bids fair te continue its highly useful arid honorable, service.

THE MAYOR'S MOTIVES. There is a conf islon among the friends of Mayor Strong as to why he accepted the Lexow Pojii bill that would be amusing if the su bject were not so grave. The latest theor that we have heard advanced Is thai the Mayor was the victim bf a sudden impulse of the passion that Inspired the Athenians to ostracise Arlstldes the Jus 4 It is suggested that he had become tired of hearing himself called the reprea ntative of reform. He rebelled against he monotony of public confidence in his fidelity. He yielded to a longing.

Just fo- once, to separate himself from the giodly crowd and assert his Independence land originality. This is not a flattering estimate, but it is more nearly so thanj he one generally entertained, I Another theory Is that the Mayor was more or less unb nsclously acting out his original and ingrained disposition as a very sealous an rather narrow Republican nrho had assumed the rfile of a non-pa tlsan executive without a realizing sens. of Its obligations and difficulties. It I a familiar delusion of this, type of Republican that all virtue is Republican and all Republicanism is virtuous. When Mr.

Strong was confronted with a mea lure which! its authors claimed to be ecessary to secure fair elections by giti lg Republicans one-half of the Police Bo irdi he shut his eyes to all evidence thi the means was not fitted to the end and would, in fact, interfere with the tnd. Whatever the motive, the Mayor's course has Inflict ed great mischief on the city, made the a tual reform of the police much more dlflic lit, and fearfully demoralized -the sent! nent in favor of independent and non partisan municipal government. His a tlon may be shameful or may be simply sltlful, according to the explanation of tr but Its consequences are i the utmost that he can do for the re st of his term will hardly compensate them. OPPOSITION FALSE PRETE.1IES. The Greater ew-York bill passed the Assembly yester lay and still lies on the table in the Sei late.

The number and variety of preten tea put forward by those who are opposing It In order to cover a palpable betraya of the people who voted for consolldat mi last November is more creditable to their ingenuity than to their Ingenuou mess. The bill provjc es for nothing on earth but a commissio to prepare legislation to be acted upon hereafter, and how else anything is to i done to give effect to the decision of it people these opponents of the measure id a not deign to say, while they raise all j. tanner of objections to things which the bill does not provide for. The only grdmd'for the referendum clause, which Wis used to obstruct the bill and which Jt le Assembly very properly rejected, is a pretense that the people had not? een consulted upon the subject matter jo the measure. It Is the very subject up which the vote was taken last Fall; a the bill does nothing but accept the suit of the vote and prepare for giving It effect hereafter.

To refer this bill to the people for approval would be only; asking them the same question over ag aln after a year's delay, since it provide iff or nothing new that can be voted up n. The statemeni tiat the bill gives no as-surance on the question of taxation is repeated in the! face of the' specific provision that wha ever measures the commission shall epare and report must provide, among other things, for attaining an equal ah lj uniform rate of taxation, and of vah atlon for the purpose of taxation, throug hout the whole of the territory of the said municipal corporation so jNothlng could be more definite or posit vf in a measure which is only intended prepare for legislation and not to accoi iplish It. i Even so intelligent and ordinarily so honest a man aa Pavey pretended In the Assembly ye sterday that the bill enabled the comrr Ission to put a charter into effect wlthc it even submitting It to the Legislature, although! It absolutely requires the cotr mission to report all its propositions to jt le Legislature and gives it no authority i do anything else with them, and it llstinctry declares that everything in ti wy of administration and governmen in the territory concerned shall re naln unaffected until and except so ir las hereafter changed by authority of law." Mr. Pavey knew that the commisi ion could do nothing but recommend meaiurea to the Legislature for its action In he future, and it is hard to undersUnd hy he should stoop to make such a pre ense. Another shallo pretense that has been put forward hat the bill would have to have the ap-oyal of Mayor Schleren and other auth rlties not specified.

Of course, this is- nt a special city bill within the Plain definition in the Constitution of tneasji that have to be submitted to the ci lea to which they relate for It is not a bill relating to this city ai ni or to this city and Brooklyn alone, and Is not subject to the acceptance r-on-aeceptance of their Mayors. This; only another of the false pretenses 1 1 hat have served the opponents of the fc i In place of arguments or reasons for tr opposition. They are really opposing consolidation after that contest hag been fought out once and been decided by a vote of the people, and they are trying to disguise their conduct under all these false pretenses. If they succeed in defeating the bill it will be simply. a refusal to carry out the man date of tht people, and will be Interpret' ed In no other way.

-V O'DOXOVAX A5TD ADOt'CH ERE. v-; v. -H r. For about a decade the people of the United States; been able to enjoy oblivion of one Jerry Donovan, who calls himself also Roaaa. He edited a paper In this town with the delightfully taurine title The United Irishman.

Few people have ever seen a disunited Irishman, though a certain Mrs. Dud-ley, who was afterward adjudged insane, attempted to furnish that curious spectacle in the person of 0'Donovanhlmself by perforating him with pistol, balls, boon after that attack, which resulted in Imbedding an Insufficient quantity of lead in him, O'Donovan and his paper lapsed, into innocuous desuetude. Now! he has turned up in London, obtaining sufficient access to public prints to call Mr. iienry Labouchere liar and scoundrel," and to offer to make good Kls words upon Mr. Labouchere' body.

It Is odd that O'Donovan should have turned up In London. He has voluntarily put his neck, as he would express iit, beneath the heel of the Saxon oppressor. Mr. Labouchere Is not, strictly speaking, a Saxon, but he has shown a disposition to oppress O'Donovan and deprive him of trie right of free speech. Doubtless O'Donovan has been employing himself in London much as he employed himself in New-York, in breathing out threatening and slaughter, flavored with as much whisky as he could afford.

He appears to have afforded an unusual quantity last. week, when he undertook to address the House of Commons from -the Strangers? 'Gallery, stating that "an assassin's blow had been dealt to him and a stain put upon his name." Why O'Donovan should object to "assassin's blow:" does not appear, since that Is not aibad description of his editorial writing'; Jn The United Irishman. It seems, however, that it was Mr. Labouchere who put the stain on his name by writing a letter warning somebody against him. Hence the present and "scoundrel." A A hostile meeting between these two publicists would be funnier than any French political duel on record.

But there la no such luck in store for us. We may, however, derive a chastened joy from own comments on the Incident. If O'Donovan were the ferocious person that he used to represent himself In his own columns, It would be quite i right to exclude him from the Strangers' Gallery of the House of Commons on suspicion that he meant to throw: dynamite bombs on the floor. But It is not likely that the warning which he resents was a warning against him as a murderous ruffian. More likely it was merely an Imputation of pecuniary Irresponsibility.

It is humiliating to try to make yourself out to be a disturber of thrones, and not be able to get other people; to regard you In a more serious aspect than that of a dead beat But this Is the fate which has probably befallen the agitator, and which it must be owned that he has invited. PRESBYTERIANS AT PITTSBURG. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian; Church which meets this week in will be watched with much Interest In all parts of the country. For; the first time in several years, there will be no convening-of a Court of th4 Lord Jesus Christ to try a prominent minister for heresy, and it seems; probable that neither Dr. Brlggs nor Dr.

Smith will be brought in any way prominently before the Church. There; has been talk of action for the deposition of both from the ministry as a necessary consequence of suspension without repentance, but that is only on the part of a -few hotheads. The great majority earnestly long for peace. That all will go perfectly smoothly cannot be expected. The absolute failure of the plan to coerce the theological seminaries into putting themselves under the immediate control of the Assembly will embitter some as it will rejoice others.

Much will depend upon the ability of the liberal to keep in check their exultation, and upon that of the conservatives to accept graciously their defeat. The request of the New-York resbytery for Instructions as to its relation to students in Union Theological SemlAary may arouse some sharp speeches, but the general principle that must rule in such cases is too plain to allow of much discussion. There will be; some ventilation of opinion in re-gar to what1 many consider the sharp practice of the Stated Clerk and his friends: in getting him a good year's salary for: half a year's work and an opportunity to dabble in every committee's duties during the Interim between Assemblies. None of these questions, however, is such, as to 'call out prolonged or very earnest debate-' There is one overture which will undoubtedly attract considerable attention. It is that from the Presbytery of Lackawanna in favor of making the General Assembly a triennial instead of an annual affair.

The reasons given for this are that thej present system occasions an Immense expense, utterly disproportionate: to the good accomplished. With the great increase of the Church the number of delegates has increased until It is now oyer 500. To transport all these over the country every year runs op a pretty heavy bill. Another reason, and one which we suspect has more real weight. Is that the Assembly Is little by little arrogating to Itself many of the If not the rights, of the Synods.

There is a marked tendency in the Presbyteries to Jump the Synods In Important eases, and go directly to the highest court of The result is MAI 15, that many questions which could far better be decided by the Synods, mad up as they are of men measurably acquainted with the merits the particular cases, are carried to the Assembly and acted upon by met) who know nothing more than they can gather In i short time from partisan speeches. The great danger of the PresbyArian Church is the tendency toward centralization of authority." There are indications that this danger is recognlted. It is significant that this Assembly Is, to an unusual degree, made, up of young men. Will they manifest In ecclesiastical matters the same clear-sightedness and determination that have made them such a power in this city and In Chicago? If they will, they can do much to make the Presbyterian Church, with Its Intelligence and wealth, one of the greatest forces In the Nation. If, however, theyj allow themselves to be led by the fear of possible results, as set forth by the leaders of the past few years, they will find freer and more aggressive Churches outstripping them in life and success.

THE WAGES MOVEMENT. One' of our Republican contemporaries, which finds Itself compelled to say something about The Times' a list of recent increases of wages; strives diligently to belittle the exhibit, saying that the number of establishments which have made increases Is about forty," (instead of 230.) and asking Its readers to '-believe that four hundred thousand establishments have reduced wages and 1 keep them down." As to the ortyj which have put up wages" it asks: "Is It not quite possible that they will be likely soon, to put them down again? And finally, in answer its own question, What is the reason that American wages are, as The Times' alleges, going up?" It says: "Is: not the only possible answer to the question this, that! wages are not going up?" The same weekly journal publishes on another page of the same Issue (May 11) what purports to be a summary of the week's news so far as it relates to! wages, under the headline Movements in Wages and in this summary there are five paragraphs, four of which give information about strikes for increases not yet granted, while the fifth states that wages have been increased in a bleaching factory at Waltham, Mass. Such summary of the wages movement fairly indicates the desire of the journal In question to avoid current statistics which are not palatable. It is not true, by the way, that there was a universal reduction of wages during the period of depression which followed the panic that was caused: by the operation of the silver-purchase law a law the enactment of which was the fruit of a bargain and agreement between the supporters of the McKlnley bill and the agents of the owners of silver mines. The Home Market Club of Boston, a high-tariff organization, recently published the results of a canvass! of the textile manufacturers of New-England, New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania, showing that 1S5 out of 481 establishments enumerated and reporting made no reduction, of wages.

Our own list shows that about 100 of the! textile manufacturing establishments which did reduce wages have, in the last six; weeks, restored either the whole or a large part of the percentage taken off, and among those which have made these Increases are nearly all the concerns which have very large pay rolls. 'i i But so far Mayor Strong has not shown himself capable of a heroic policy' says Harper's Weekly. Still the Mayor marched out of the camp of his friends Into the camp of the enemy of. his friends, and he smashed pledges and kicked over bis platform. That may not be heroic, but it was certainly bold.

The Aldermen should cast an eye! up the river. They have begun to indict Assemblymen for taking bribes. There will be a disposition to start the indictment machinery here if the board Insists on adopting Its committee's report giving the St. Nicholas Avenue franchise to the Third Avenue cable road, against the emphatic desire of the property owners along the route. There is something about the innkeeper's calling and experiehcea that developa in him a tendency toward humor and adipose tissue.

Object of the public's never-ceasing complaints, he answers them not; again, but welcomes the arriving gut at and speeds him who departs with Imperturbable good temper. Just now the city is pervaded by these smiling rulers of homes for the temporarily homeless. Mr. and Mrs. Boniface are here, four hundred of each, and their presence adds appreciably to the gayety of our streets.

We hate them when they refuse to caah our checks, put us in; rooms facing the alrahaft. forget to call us for the 8:10 train, and feed us with steaks cooked in a frying pan, but when they come a-via-iting all this Is forgiven, only the best of their stories are remembered, and not one of them shall be asked to pay his shot except by promising to favor New-York with their annual conventions aa often the years arrive. Brooklyn's entl-consolldatlonlsts apparently object to balloting done in single heats," and would substitute for It a system of "beat three out of Their chief argument seems to be that the result of last year's voting on this question of consolidation waa a surprise "that they had no idea there were so many people who favored a union of the two cities which the East River, without separating, dl rides. But many besides the so-called! Loyal Leaguers were vastly, startled last November. Some of them carried their atnise-ment behind prison bars, and others Into the sequestration, hardly seas painful for such folk, that follows exclusion from public office.

None of these mora practical statesmen, so far as known, made the unexpectedness of their downfall a basis for denying the conclusiveness of the vote then cast. How would it be if this problem, when again submitted to the people, should be answered the other way? Could hot the unionists, in turn, raise the claim of Inauf-ficient discussion, and, surprised to find themselves in the minority, insist 'on another trial? Evidently they could do so with quite as much of reason as there is for doing it now. Of course, two campaigns would give more chance for preparation than one, but three, or five, or seven, or fifteen would give still more. An endless series Is evidently impracticable, that being the ease, the principle of stare decisis" might, just fur once, be safely applied. 0PESSTT1 IT TEBBACS Reveler g.saes Seasea Oaeaeel by tbe Fereaesy At Terrace Garden last night, the; regular Summer season of operetta In Oerroan was begun.

The Ferencsy Operetta Company appeared In an operetta In three acts, entitled Der Oberstelger" The 1 Master Miner "of which the book Is by M. West and Held and the musts by Carl Zeller. In spite ef the. fact that the evening was anything but summery, there was large audience, and every evidence was given of genuine enjoyment. The book of Der Oberstelger" Is not a glittering mass of originality, but It tells a pretty story In a matter-of-fact way.

and serves Its purpose tolerably. Color and locale are given by the placing of the action at a Government mine, and there is a gentle hint of contemporaneous Interest in the strike of the miners for higher wages. A Prince, who masquerades as a miner, reminds one of Lortslnga Csar und Zimmermann," and. of course, there la a noble lady who disguises heraelf In modest attire also. The dialogue Is, indeed, pretty poor stuff, but our German brethren seem to take kindly: to that sort of The music la.

of the conventional Viennese school, sad conalats ef a series of polkas, waltses, and maxourkas, all cut on the Strauss last. The operetta, however, will serve very well asja Summer entertainment. I The company engaged In the performance of Der Oberstelger Is composed of competent persons. Bertha Prtnav a newcomer, made a moat pleasing Impression as the Countess Flchtenau. The lady has a pleaaant soprano voice, and alnga with agreeable expression.

Her modest And graceful demeanor added greatly to the charm of her performance. Carta Engender ia an old acquaintance of the patrons of Terrace Garden, and ah waa received with renewed favor last night. In the role of Nelly, an embroiderer. Another old favorite waa Ferdinand Schutz, the tenor, who was Intrusted with the role of the master miner. He acted and sang with Sreat spirit.

Emil Sondermann, as' the (rector of mines, proved to be a capable comedian, and Max Monti made a good impression as Duke Roderich. The chorus and orchestra, while they were not large, did their work well, and Otto Findelson directed with vigor. The operetta will be repeated every evening till further notice. ART NOTES. Louis Paul Dessar, an artist whose work has attracted considerable attention, both at home and abroad, gave last at a reception In his studio, an opportunity to see his collected paintings.

Mr. Dessar has received a gold medal at the Paris Salon and was represented by Important contributions in the Academy of Design and the Society of American Artists. His work shows keen appreciation of color, and much thought and Intelligence in composition. A dozen or more canvases of subjects, mostly-painted on the Normandy coast, were greatly admired. Prominent among these were Le Soir," (medaled at Chicago.) Louise," "Mending the Nets' and several landscapes.

The artist returns shortly to Paris, where he has a studio, as well as lone at Etaples, Pas de Calais. Sun and Shade for March is somewhat late, though none the less attractive on that account. There Is a monograph of the famous picture by Hoffman of Berlin of Christ in the Temple." The complete painting is reproduced cleverly In photogravure, and besides this there are four plates of details. Confining themselves this month to works of a religious character, the publishers give as well the Meier Madonna," by Holbein: The Vierge de by Mu-rlllo. and "La BeUe Jardiniere," by Raphael.

All these make a sumptuous collection that, is sure to be appreciated by an artistic public, and will be prized for portfolios. (The Photogravure Company, 137 West Twenty-third Street, New-York.) On May 23 the schools of the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts will close. The annual Spring exhibition of students work will be held from May 23 until June 8. In addition to class prises and academy schol-arships, through the liberality of a member of the Board of Directors, a traveling scholarship of $800, providing one year's study abroad, has for the lasti four years been offered to students of the academy. It will- be awarded again thla year.

The Charles Topham Prises of and 100 will be awarded to students who have worked at least two Works submitted for these prises must be compositions on the subjects. Motherhood and Sympathy." W. Hamilton Gibson has closed his Brooklyn studio and departed his country home at Washington, where he will remain until midwinter. Mr. Gibson has delivered many lectures during the past season, which is now practically closed, and Is already making dates for next year.

His book on "Edible Mushrooms," will. It is expected, be published about midsummer. The artlat-writer will be engaged on maga-sne work during the Summer, getting time for some water colors and for the preparation of mechanical chart' models for his new lectures. 1 1 Drawings by Jean Francois Raffaelli and some reproductions of examples of book decorations form the principal attractions of Tha Art Student for There is an article on "Learning to Illustrate, the customary French leeaon. and the third and fourth chapters of the Book of Sir Galahad." with attractive Initial letters.

Some of the reading matter, of which there Is but a scant installment, is printed among the advertisements on the pages of the (Ernest Knaufft, 132 West Twenty-third i Street. New-York.) J. Harrison Mills will take a small party of artists and students for a four months' sojourn to the lovely region at the head of the Bay of Fundy, his Summer home at Rothesay on Kennebecasis. being the objective point The party will leave New-York June 1, and return Oct, 1. A normal art course for teachers In public and private schools will be made special during July and August, with proper reduction of expenses.

The terms, which will be moderate, will include two criticisms weekly. Frederick P. Vinton's portrait of the Hon. Alonson W. Beard has been hung tn the Collector's room at the Custom House, Boston.

The inscription on the painting reads: Hon. Alonson W. Beard, Collector, 1878-82 1880-. Presented to the United Btatea by Lovers of Civil Service Reform and Good Government. In recognition of His Conspicuous Loyalty to Both." The cost, $1,535, was raised by subscription, i i Henry W.

Ranger will spend thi Summer working out of doors In Canada. Mr. Heata'a Letter Abomt Sllier. No. 22 William Street, New-York, To fk SUltor of TUStw-Jort flaw, May 14, 1885.

You were kind enough to print a letter I wrote about aUver in your issue to-day. The types make me say; the cost of producing copper last year was .8 per pound, whereas it should be 5.68 per pound. The Financial Chronicle estimated the production of gold last year at 8,820.000 ounces, sot 1.830,-000. as printed. Please also notice do sot by any means consider myself "perhaps the largest dealer in the country of the great Southern staples." Kindly oblige me by making the corrections.

HENRY HENTZ. Kot Br. Ssalta's Chare a. The Rev. Dr.

Wilton Merle 8ml th. pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church, la West Fifty-seventh Street, has written to The New-York Times that his church was confused with the Fifty-first 8treet Presbyterian Church In the report of the last meeting of the New-Tork Presbytery, Dr. Smith says: "Neither my church nor I was the subject of aay comment or action la the Presbytery. The Central Church, of which have the honor to be pastor, has Just ended the most prosperous year of her history, la peace ard perfect harmony." TE.V EUQTIIEIIS IS THE Mlll'i i i ae jr. leu jtErvszit to zhtoxj: go nOME TO, WAKE A CHOP.

I i He Teld the Mather the Confederacy Heeded These nasi Her j. Weal4 Keep tier freaa Win. Correspondeaee of The Aagusfa Chronicle. IATHENS, Ga-, May 8-A few days a Chancellor Boggs received a letter from Prof. Charles S.

Venable of the University or Virginia, asking that Inquiry be rrai for the name of the lady who wrote Gen. Lee from Clarke County asking that one her ten sons be allowed te come borne sni a crop for her husband and herself. Prof. Venable desires to preserve this name as an instance of the fidelity of Southern womanhood to the cause of the Confederacy. jThe letter has already found answer through Mlas Anna Gean, a granddajrMer of this old lady, who furnished the following bit of family history: James E.

Bone and his wife, MUd-e-i one. lived Ji 18 ia Clarke Therw nad been born to them twenty-tnree 4hll-dren. sixteen of whom had lived to min-n," womanhood ten sons and six svAen the war broke otit the l-rsve an I Joyal mother buckled on the eworJa ef Jer Ui-ionVnI cnt tbem "git tor JkX TTh" were Hardeman, Jonathan, James. Sanders, George. Clark Jo-'a'i" ef Wllilsf Thev Army Northern Virgin! and fought through the war.

Clark was ti.tf--".W0und'' Sor aied of tmall-SfvwF ar- rur sons now aur-yve Hardeman Bone of Forsyth Willis Bone of WUlUm Bone of Har- SoTls. Ut' B0 7l lm- being hard prood for LeeWt.eV'fr wrote Gen' Iftter asking that one of her sons ne sent home to make a crop. To this letter Oen. Lee replied. Following is a copy of olrlnil.

nSw in ppsseaaion of Miss Dorcas Bone of this city, a sister of the ten brothers: Army of Northern Virginia. April Madame; Your tetter of the 7th last, asking discharge or furlough of your moSThJrl voting your tea eons to the service of the coun-ISJL wn wr1ng them to defend tbetr fT B1 wry good soldier wa have la 'VV7-. we allowed all to return who are at home we should soow bare as country sympathise with you la your ni Privations, but I trust your kind aeignDors In the patriot la 'State ef Georgia will noi Pf1' rou wn while your brave sons are doing their duty manfully against the enemy, I am yery respectfully your obedient servant, R. E. LEE, OeaeraL This letter ef Gen.

Lee is preserved as a priceless legacy of the days that are gone. This letter of Inquiry has developed other facts of interest on the earns line. Wiley Thornton and his wife, Harriet H. Thornton, sent from Clarke County to the Army of Northern Virginia three sons, and to the Army of the West seven sons, making ten In all. The three who went to vwer A.

Thornton, attll living In Athens: Atlas M. Thofhton, and Benja- min F. Thornton. The seven brothers who went to the Army of the West were waLlandP- Macon David Malon Marion and Clncinnatus F. Thornton.

were twelve Elder brothers. Ten of them went to the war In the Clarke Rifles and two In the Johnson Guarda. Theft were Andrew David David Dr. Joahusv Dawson w. Joseph.

Joseph -nd H. Elder. Two of these soldiers were killed and several wounded. Brsdbeny brothers went out from S1" County Co fight for Dixie, They were W- Bradberry. John Bradberry.

J. V. Bradberry. and J. W.

Bradberry. The first o'. these were killed during; the war. the tB killed John through his hip and wounded his brother, J. V.

Bradberry. Jlx.iPmr,c,t i brothers'from Clarke County In the war. three of them in Grady. These were Henry Hemrick. Darid Hemrlck, William HemrickC Aleck -Hemrick.

and Levi J. Hemrick. Messrs. David and Levi Hem-rick suil live In Clarke County, rlt Is doubted whether any county In the Confederate States furnished more soldiers record." i It amply demonstrates beyond terad. SHthre.lh that confronted 7ne available man wa.

'sent 80CTH1M FORESTS mSiPPElBIJfl Mlllleas Acres of pae Leads De. br Makers mt report In the Proceedings of! th American Forestry Association." Just published, states that turpentine orcharding, which has caused the devastation of millions of acres of ipng-leaf pine forest, is in the Gulf region confined within its eastern part It can safely be maintained that the aggregate production of the 361.830 casks (of 50 gallons each) of spirits of turpentine for the period of eleven years. Including the year 18S0 to the close of IS9L reported as received In the Mobile market, has involved the utter devastation of not less than 2.250.000 acres of Umber land. Under h. Prnt system of management, i the 5rom the abandoned turpentine orchards of former- years ia speedily diss p-5TflIV i.Sonven!.eBi,T "Ituated along, the railroad lines and rivers, they are beinsr "P'dly, cleared.

Of late yeari turpenUni i.i ln Immediate connec-tton with the lumbering business, and this Powerful' stimulus! irc2.i.t.hM..b?n demonstrated by the Vnltl J'mbr ta that the tlmbeV le found in no way Impaired In its physical Im invKil a1, future the forests wrttel for their reainous before the timber Is to be felled for the sawmill. For the spontaneous renewal of the lomr- 1LP'J? ia the tfon there appears no, hope under the existing xnanage- u.nder-th ht pressure of large investments of capital in. Urn mansfacturing plCnt. with daily outp all the way from UO.OUO to 100.000 feet board measure, the supplies trajiafeVred fromth forests to the mill by coatlyeam power and In connection with the modern dry ilia permitting th. sappy stuff of lower gVades to be turned Into a merchantable article.

lmost completely cleared ihe growth. The scanty remainder if bled for turpentine, la laid low byTtorms or destroyed by fire, and. even la districts where it baa not been subjected to this infliction, amounts to little aa a factor of futurav Tk. 4 uv wvuu Erowin or Trie tt.L?.tt? Af Poid iuvuinuj iriuminr nres. which.

orWSa convict tion with turpentine orcharding, and elae-where from accident, carelessness, or de, l5n- Is doomed to destruction. Altbougn the flat woods are less liable to this dahger. the forest by natural Sem found to take placeTTthe ld with water for the greater part of the aeason being as unfavorable to the rerminatton ef the seed aa It ia to the 3WJ. th WjlBg. Th flat wooda.

Btrlpped of their Umber, during the last twenty-five years, are overgrown with tall broom sedge graaa, and present mostly the aspect of savannahs, nearly or Quite destl-xui or xrtfeaW Altralasa la th Harsory. Freat The Boatoa Saturday Erwlag Oaaetts. The newest way of bidding a refractory child to go and play combines sweetness and belief in the mind cure, and the necessity of cultivating altruism. It la, My amT' cf? Poeaibly wlah to gk do wish. It would so much more convenient for dear little mother." At the table orfe addresses the Infant with.

"My sweet. If you can possibly like your oatmeal, do like it. and then dear little mother nil tr you Saratoga, hen aebooltlme cornea, on. murmurs, "My love, if you can poeaibly persuade youreelf to love your book, do lot. It.

and go to school, and permit dear little mother to go shopping." Thus It continues all day long, until the aweet child I begged to gp to bed. and does wish when it can no longer keep Its eyes open, SW-awassi aswasawasw aassawaBwaassssiassssi.BsaBSssBBaBW.Bsaa) Mar Atteatloa Crape (baa Politics. From, The St. LouU Oloba. The good results of the defeat of Populism In Kansas are to be seen ia the official Statistics of agricultural operation, which show that th farmers are giving much tnor attention thU year to their cropa.

than to politlca. it appears that the arva of com pUnted is acres, and vt oa's sown i.aoo.ftK) crea, making in ail a.OUU.000 acres of these tw? feeding gruana-aa area which only one State Iow a ha a ever Th awaeoa baa started very favorably, and there la likely to be a yu il that will go far toward making gooi tr loss that ensued while the farms v.rre -lacted in the interest of TrHer. LeaV and other demagogues vf tai tU os.